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Our commitment to Windows quality

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Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by vrighter »

canucker2016 wrote: post #900
aeternum wrote: post #527

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Much of big tech became Product leaders running amok. Somehow It shifted from users know best to "Product" knows best. I think this all stemmed everyone wanting to be Apple except no one actually achieved it and now we have 3 different versions of the audio control panel in Windows, the start button is somehow in the middle of the screen, and windows search no longer searches your PC. Deleting "Product" might save wi…

> ... the start button is somehow in the middle of the screen ... If you take a look at the size of widescreen monitors, you can kinda guess why someone decided to move the start button/menu to the middle of the screen. I know Samsung and Dell have ginmorous 49 inch monitors. Start menu that pops up from the lower left corner of the monitor would be a bad UX - the user might not even notice that a menu had popped up…

the user would most definitely notice a menu popped up. Because they clicked it themselves

Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by advael »

NetMageSCW wrote: post #742
advael wrote: post #204

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As I tell all my friends panic-switching as their shit breaks, the best time to switch to linux was ten years ago. The second-best time is now

Or there’s never really been a good time to switch to Linux and now is the worst time.

Sounds as dumb to me as it does every other time someone says it, but to be fair I never really acquired the taste for corporate boot

Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by tsoukase »

The elephant in the room with Windows is that they are a bunch of bloated binary malware from the kernel to userland, that, not only cause a massive security hole wide open and spy on users, but we don't know what else happens under our nose.

I am of the opinion that if the OS is not open source, it's not your device.

Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by p2detar »

xp84 wrote: post #534
10000truths wrote: post #452

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Windows' value is as a funnel to the Microsoft platform. Starving that funnel of attention might not have an immediate effect, but it's a slow death spiral for the company because it cannibalizes their long-term mind share. The 10-year-olds today who grow up using Chromebooks in school, Macbooks in college, and iPhones/Android phones in their daily lives, will end up investing in Google and Apple products as a workin…

> The 10-year-olds today who grow up using Chromebooks in school, Macbooks in college, and iPhones/Android phones in their daily lives, will end up investing in Google and Apple products as a working adult at home or at the office. 1. That's not how businesses work - the 10-year-old will be 28 when he becomes an IT manager, and their 40yo boss will say "LOL no, learn to use Active Directory, we're not switching the e…

> it's worth pointing out that neither Google nor especially Apple has shown even slight interest in delivering "Enterprise" anything

You make a bold claim and then kind of refute it yourself. Apple Business and School Manager, Managed Apple Ids, Google-managed Enterprises with the admin console. The thing that Microsoft has is Entra Conditional Access and it is powerful, but also this thing is actively crumbling under its own complexity weight. From my experience the future of Enterprise solutions does not belong to Microsoft.

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Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by Friedduck »

There is so much wrong with Windows. So many neglected corners that have existed for decades and their response is to add AI.

Fix settings. Fix UI customization. Fix notifications. Fix search. Fix multitasking and network blocking. Fix sleep behavior.

I could go on. They need an entire year of house-cleaning before they add AI.

Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by PaulHoule »

palmotea wrote: post #18
ceejayoz wrote: post #9

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"… by making them necessary entry points! Muahahaha!"

> "… by making them necessary entry points! Muahahaha!" Starting with Windows 11 26H2, the Start Menu will be removed and replaced with Copilot. In order to use a locally hosted app, an externally hosted LLM will need to be instructed to launch it. The reliability is phenomenal: our testing has shown it can launch the right app with 95% accuracy.

What's the accuracy of the current Start Menu interface in real life? There's a certain amount of fat fingering which must be attributed to the software because software decisions affect the fat finger rate. Then there is all the other weirdness, the applications you can search for by name and the ones you don't, search results that appear and sporadically get updated later, etc.

My take though is that Copilot does a better job with bash than it does with CMD.EXE or Powershell so the "AI Natives" will all ask it to install WSL 2 and then tell it to do things there.

Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by [deleted] »

fgonzag wrote: post #242
dmos62 wrote: post #195

I'm somewhat surprised that Windows is still most of personal computers. In my eyes, it's fundamentally inferior to Linux, and its superficial superiority only comes from the ecosystem, which is to say adoption, not some inherent trait. But then, since Linux adoption didn't meaningfully change in the last 20 years, I'm forced to confront the fact that either I'm wrong about its fundamentals, or the market is able to…

Change is hard. My father is a 70-year-old software engineer who programs .NET Core in Notepad and builds using custom BAT files that build the project using csc (the outright compiler). He browses and copies files in the Windows Terminal. He is also accustomed to Linux since we deploy to it in our business, and he can do everything comfortably in the Linux terminal. He trusts me almost blindly, yet I can’t convince…

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